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Title: Social allegory


1
Social allegory
  • Definition
  • Origin
  • Typology
  • 2 examples
  • Animal Farm
  • Lord of the Flies

2
Allegory definition
  • Myths
  • symbolic, not litteral
  • Secondary meaning
  • Interpretive process

3
Allegory origin
  • Fables old lost cultures
  • Aesop, 6th Century BC
  • Pheadrus, Roman around year 0
  • India, 5th Century BC

4
Allegory users
  • Church Fathers
  • Old Testament gt New Testament
  • Love epics, Middle Age
  • Novelists, 18th Century
  • Gullivers Travels, Swift.

5
Allegory typology
  • Cosmologic
  • Meaning of stars, planets and human life.
  • Biblical
  • Biblical teachings through events in Bible.
  • Social
  • Human beings, institution, systems, etc.

6
Social allegory
  • Political (systemic)
  • Animal Farm
  • Humanist (asystemic natural)
  • Lord of the Flies

7
Animal Farm and Lord of the Flies
  • Summaries
  • Backgrounds
  • Marxism, communismvs
  • The beast within

8
Animal Farm Summary
  • Animals take over farm
  • 7 commandments
  • pigs from comrades to dictators
  • Changing facts
  • production, state of the farm
  • retelling history
  • Snowball vs Napoleon
  • Humans vs animals

9
Lord of the Flies Summary
  • Arrival on the Island (bomb, plane)
  • Ralph as chief
  • Other children (Piggy, Jack, Simon)
  • Clash Ralph vs Jack Rescue vs Adaptation
  • New clan Jack as chief
  • Murders
  • Aboriginal costums

10
Animal Farm background
  • Bolchevik revolution
  • Rise of Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin.
  • Censorship, propaganda.
  • Murders, accusations, etc.
  • Like the others

11
Communism synthesis
  • Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men.
    Soviet socialism is the opposite.
  • A new prisoner arrives at a prison camp and is
    asked by another prisoner about the length of
    this sentence. "Seven years," he replies, "but
    there was no crime. I didn't do anything." The
    other prisoner responds, "You must be lying, the
    sentence for nothing is only five years."

12
Golding Background
  • Human is a brute deep inside bloodthirsty beast
    within all of us.
  • Society, political system doesnt matter.
  • After WW II, atom bomb, mass killings,
    nazism-fascism.

13
Summary social allegory
  • A way to represent the world by reproducing some
    of its iconic representations, actors, historical
    facts, etc.
  • This aesthetic strategy can be used through all
    kinds of media.

14
Allegory of Love (Unfaithfulness)Veronese, 1570
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WS 2 Your examples of social allegories
  • Find as many examples as you can of social
    allegories in at least three different media or
    modes of representation.
  • Fritz Lang, Metropolis
  • How are they allegories, what do they reproduce
    or represent?
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